I couldn't help myself....

My awesome hubby got me a laptop for my birthday. I love it. He showed me how to use the "paint" feature the other day.


He shouldn't have.............

This is what I do......

Last week a fun bloggy friend Wendy at "No Botox Allowed" posted what a day at work was like for her. She's a court reporter. I think that seems so totally exciting. I have always wondered what in the world are they typing with that little box thing. It can't possibly be words can it?

Anyway, I decided to post a few pictures of what I do. It isn't always glamorous, but it's always interesting. Never a dull moment. I have helped deliver a baby in the car...why do they wait so long, "yes dear that is a head". I have broken ribs on someone while doing chest compressions...but only in the nicest way possible.

Today was a very rewarding day for me because I helped a very special someone get better.

He is really sick as you can tell from the little crosses on his eyes.
But after monitoring his cardiac rhythm and giving him a shot in his duck-butt...

And watching him closely for awhile in the trauma bay...

Can you see him sitting up there amist the confusion of the life-saving million dollar monitoring equipment? Without my super-trauma nurse skills Duck may not have made it....oops I told you his name....HIPPA violation!!!!!
After consulting with the specialists it was deemed he was well enough to go back to the tub.

My job is so rewarding! sniffle sniffle.....

OK so here is the real story. My youngest offspring...my baby...soon to be graduating...sniffle sniffle (those are real sniffles by the way)My baby that has the voice of an angel, plays the violin as well as YoYoMa(almost) is my heart and soul....

Is in trouble.........I know that is hard to believe with her bow and cute self. But she's in trouble. She decided she needed to go to the bathroom during Bel Cantos (only the best high school choir on the planet) Well, she needed to take a hall pass in order to go...what is the hall pass???? The Duck! The very same you see above. Well, she forgot she had the duck, the duck has been hidden in piles of clothes, books other "stuff" in her room. The Bel Cantos director is very fond of the Duck. Slightly weird I know, but all the same, he is the one giving the grade. So she needed to come up with a good excuse as to why the Duck has been absent for so long. For some reason the excuse of "but Mr. H how can you be mad at me? Look at the cute bow?" (I don't know where she comes from sometimes) didn't work. He wanted his Duck back. I wonder if she could actually not graduate from high school because of the Duck? So this morning before we started getting busy in the ER we came up with this awesome excuse. I took pictures of the Duck explained his absence and printed out the photos to give to Mr. H as evidence. And it worked! She is forgiven, the Duck got loves and cookies and balloons and all is well.

My life is very difficult sometimes as you can only imagine.

I DID IT!!!!

Oh, thank you Kristina and Kim!!!! Lookey lookey lookey! I did it! You guys are the most awesome tutoritas! I am bowing to your greatness. And Wendy seriously I am really impaired but these two showed me the way!

I am going to celebrate. Tomorrow I am going to post a give-away to celebrate. I've never done a give-away before but I am going to jump on the give-away band wagon. I am so happy I can do the linky thingy!

I totally ♥ these guys!

Help me Rhonda...

Or Kristina or Kim or Jan or any other very smart blogger. How do I do the link thingy??????? You know....with the colored word that lets you go right to the site. I'm so embarassed from my lack of knowledge.

Confession Tag

I've been tagged on the "Confession Tag" by Kim @ The Simple Things . This is pretty cute but I'm not sure I'm ready to 'fess up to everything. Oh, well....here goes.



1. What is my blogger name? Garden??? Nah, Garden of Egan is the blog title...name...Tauna or when I'm at work in the ER Tauna the Pirhana.

2. When is your birthday? One month ago..February 10th.

3. How long have you been blogging? Since July of 2008 and it's been fun!

4. Who tagged you? Kim...an awesome soon to be RN!

5. Tell your most favorite body parts???? Seriously? Uhm, I'm not sure there is that many....eyes (blue) feet, ears, lips, forehead.

6. What do you wish for most for your birthday? I got it! A laptop.

7. What color are your nails? Nekked....Naddda.......Zip....Zilch!

8. Any depressing thoughts lately? YA! Where the heck did this roll come from and who's rear end is that?

9. What is your next months plans? Waiting for the snow to melt...watching it closely. Oh, the best is going to Phoenix over Conference weekend to visit some friends, flying trip there and back, but it's warm!

10. At what age did you have your first crush? 1st Grade!!! I had it bad. His name was Bruce!

11. Did you attend any school reunions after you graduated? Yup, I did until the 25 year...skipped it due to the fact that I was a lard-butt...went to the 30 because I had lost 53 pounds.

12. Have you ever passed gas in public and pretended you didn't smell anything? Uh, I work in the Emergency Room...there are days when it smells like everyone has passed gas........so it's easy to hide. (what a question!)

13. Are you a clean freak? Unfortunately..it's a curse really. If the house isn't spotless I'm a mess.

14. Which era do you wish you were born into? I would love to have been a pioneer. I love the outdoors and camping over a fire and not hearing the phone, TV, city noises...it would have been bliss.

15. Are you a vegetarian? Uh, do they eat red meat? If they do then I am one!

16. How many pillows do you sleep with at night? Well, I start off with one, sometimes I steal my husbands, but usually end up without any...wild sleeper!

17. Are you a light sleeper or I don't-care-if-there-is-a-bomb-in-here sleeper? Very light sleeper...in fact, please don't wake me up before it's time, or I'm up for the rest of the day.

18. Do you secretly wear granny panties when your hubby's not around? Nope.

19. What is your ultimate dream job? I'm living it. ER nurse!

20. What is it that your hubby does that drives you crazy? Scowls. I hate that...he needs botox.

21. What is your dream car? A Lexus SUV thingy! I would love one!

22. Do you wake up easily in the morning? NO!!! I might be at work by 6:00 but I don't "wake" up until 10:00.

23. Do you like hairy men? Depends. I also work at a Skin Care Clinic, I laser body hair off...it's a beautiful thing.

24. How about goateed me? Not so much.

25. Which would you prefer, a 2 hour spa, 2 hour Thai massage or 2 hour foot massage? I think a Thai Massage...unless I could find someone to massage my scalp for two hours....I love my head massaged.

26. Have you ever wished you had a different name other than your real name? YES with a capital YES! My real name "Eutauna"! Can you believe? I was made fun of my whole life. I shortened it to Tauna, but I would love to have been a Vanna or something swarmy like that.

27. What is the most extreme sport you have ever done? Uh, I work in the ER I don't DO extreme sports, I take care of those the DO extreme sports.

28. Do you prefer traveling to Europe or Asia? I don't prefer. I don't love to travel....am I weird?

29. What is your favorite food. SHRIMP!!!

30. What is the most embarrassing moment when you were out on a date? Wow, I'm so old I don't remember dating.

Here are the rules. Copy and paste the whole questionnaire and replace my answers with yours. You have to create a link for the blogger that tagged you and pass this on to 4 other bloggers.
OK, so I don't know how to create links........sorry.

So Kim tagged me. She's The Simple Life at http://hopkinzrn.blogspot.com This is a fun blog and this girl is outrageous!

I am TAGGING:

Mary at Life is Good. Great blog!

I am also tagging:

JoAnn at 'Nef Said. Speaking of out of control. It's this woman!

I am also tagging:

Becca at Dream Weaver. She's a lot crazy, that's all I have to say about her.

Also tagging:
Susan at G.SUZE-Chapter 2. This is one classy lady and when I grow up I want to be like her!

OK, there ya go! I've been tagged and I've tagged.

Caution: Not for the Faint of Heart...or Stomach

OK, first of all this is a picture that I took at work today. This is NOT my charting station! I want that clarified now.

What you do need to know, is that the clerk in the ER is the MOST important person in the ER. They keep us straight, they answer the never-ending ringing of the phones, there are 3 right next to her desk and then another 5 in the immediate vicinity. The clerk tells us where to go, what is coming in, they have a bazillion phone numbers memorized...in short they are amazing and we can not function without them.
Well, because they are so busy, they rarely, if ever get a break. Today was one of those days, heart attack, seizure, kidney stone and that was just in less than 30 minutes.
Well, our dear clerk is doing her amazing super-power clerking, we are yelling orders at her, phones are ringing and she's cool as a cucumber.....I look over at her desk at notice something that sorta made me cringe.....
On the left of the desk is 4 vials of blood and a urine sample. On the right of her desk is lunch....meatloaf, mashed potatoes and veggies.

I love our quirky clerks. They are efficient. I don't love urine samples and meatloaf....I'm not sure I'll get over this image soon.

Birthdays Birthdays Birthdays!!!

February and March are huge birthday months for this family. We begin on the 10th of February with Cameron's birthday. He's 23 this year!
Then we have Matt's birthday on the 26th of February, old man at 28!

 

Then we have the Yellow Rose of Texas....Miss Lexi on the 27th of February. She turned 1 and loves her pink frosting!

 

Then is Krewzer's celebration! Krew will be 2! His birthday is the 8th of March, but we had an early celebration with all of the family. Grandma Heidi made a darling "McQueen" cake from Cars, everything was a Cars theme and Krew loved it. He had even been practicing blowing out the candles and did great!

 

Then we have Tara who had a birthday yesterday. She had to work harder to get ALL those candles out!

 

And we aren't done yet! We have Princess Jessica turns 3 coming up on the 17th and Josh hitting the big 9 years old on the 19th!
It's fun to see Lexi, Krew and Jessica be just a year apart because the change in them from year to year is pretty incredible. Lyns knows what's ahead next year by looking at Krew and Sara knows what is in store for her by looking at Jessica. They grow so fast!

Our Own "Stimulus Package"

So, there's much talk about the economy, bailouts, stimulus package and it seems the news media is reporting every single hiccup, burp and event taking place in Washington D.C. I for one, don't think that it is the governments job to bail out anyone, especially big companys with CEO making salaries that would feed a small country.
My better half and I sat down yesterday to see what we could do to stimulate our own economy. There are things we have talked about for some time, but we decided to take the hard stand now.

Good bye Dish TV! Good riddance! Sure I hope I don't miss 100 channels of shopping networks. I know I will miss reruns of NCIS, Mark Harmon is such a good actor and I have a thing for gray hair, but tough times call for tough measures.
Good bye Netflix! Only $10.00 a month, but we just can't figure out movies to watch, there's such poor entertainment these days.
Good bye insurance on the cell phones. Such a waste. If we really have to we can get one off ebay.
Discussed getting rid of the cell phone, but decided that for now we'll keep it.

Savings per month.......about $130.00.

We also went through our statements carefully and found that there were two different items being taken out that we weren't aware of. One of them was only $10 a month, but for the past 15 months it was something we didn't need. Called the company, they said, woops and refunded us $150.00. The other company said they wouldn't refund us $11.95 a month for the past year, but we cancelled them. So add another $21.00 to the $130.00 above.

We also decided to rent the apartment again....sigh....I loved having a canning kitchen. I love having the extra space for junk, but that's some valuable real estate that could be used for other things and this house is plenty big for just the 3 of us.

I also went to Albertsons to see if I could get excited about the BIG huge coupon sale they were having this week. I looked and looked and tried to get excited about the HUGE savings. I even put stuff in my cart. But then put it back and walked out of the store empty-handed. I just don't buy that kind of groceries, so would it be a savings? Sure, cake mixes were about 75 cents, but make my own cakes for much less. I don't eat Progresso soup, I don't need fruit roll ups, and don't buy boxed cereal. I know people were going out of there with cases and cases of the stuff, but nothing made me happy.

I also decided that we'll be eating less meats and more dried beans and veggies. Eating more of my home canned goods if we need a snack. Those peaches are delicious.

Maybe one of these days we'll get rid of the cell phone or the land line, or maybe I'll have a huge yard sale and get rid of a bunch of junk.

My better half is required to take a week-long furlough between now and the end of May...without pay. Better that than a layoff, but it's a little scary out there!

Just trying to be prepared for the wild ride we seem to be having!